All the other cards have, in the same manner, explanatory verses at the foot. The mark of the suit is placed at the top, to the left, and above it is engraved the value of the card, in Roman numerals. In the coat cards, the name of each,--King, Queen, or Knave--is engraved above the mark of the suit. This pack has been in the possession of Mr. Heywood's family for upwards of a century. A pack of satirical cards, belonging to W. H. Diamond, Esq., Frith street, Soho square, appear to have been executed about the same time. Each subject has an explanatory couplet at the bottom, and the value of each in the game is indicated by a small card engraved at the top, to the left. As in the other pack, there is a red stamp on the Ace of Spades. All the subjects are coarsely engraved, though some of them display points of character very much in the style of Hogarth. In the Three of Spades there is a billiard-table, at which a gentleman is playing with a curved cue. The inscription is: "Think not a losing gamester will be fair, "Who at y^e best ne're playd upon the square." In the Ten of Spades, a Moorfields quack is seen pointing to his sign, with the inscription: "To famed Moorfields I dayly do repair; Kill worms, cure itch, and make y^e ladies fair." In the Ace of Diamonds, a lady is seen showing her palm to a fortune-teller, with the inscription: "How can you hope this Gipsey drabb should know The Fates decrees, and who was made for you." In the Four of Diamonds, a lady is seen exchanging some of her clothes for china ware, with an itinerant dealer. The inscription is: "Your pockets, madam, surely are wondrous bare, To sell your very clothes for china ware." In the Ten of Diamonds, the interior of a shop is shown, with articles of plate on the shelves. A woman is standing behind the counter, on which are a box and dice, and in front are a lady and gentleman who seem to have just thrown. The inscription is: "At Epsom oft these rafflings I have seen, But assignation's what they chiefly mean." In England, books containing instructions for playing at cards appear to have been first published in the reign of Charles II, to the great benefit, most assuredly, of all adepts who had acquired their knowledge by practice; for in card-playing, as well as in chemistry, the experienced manipulators have a great advantage over the merely book-learned when matters are brought to the test. The real science of play is not to be acquired by the study of books, but by frequent encounters across the table, with men, whose keenness ensures attention to the rules of the game. But, even with the knowledge thus acquired, the proficient will gain but little, unless he also be skilled in the discrimination of flats and sharps.